Complete Works for Strings

String Trio, Op. 45 (1946)
Commissioned by the Department of Music, Harvard University

premiere recording in this version
Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19 (1911)
arranged by Henk Guittart for string quartet (1999)

premiere recording in this version
Quintet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Op. 26 (1923-4)
arranged by Henk Guittart for string quintet (1995)
To Bubi Arnold

String Quartet in D major (1897)

Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1906)
arranged by Anton Webern for piano and string quartet (1922-3)

Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (1933)
in B flat major
after the Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 7 by George Frideric Handel,
freely transcribed by Arnold Schoenberg

Schoenberg Quartet
Janneke van der Meer violin
Wim de Jong violin
Henk Guittart viola
Viola de Hoog cello
with
Susan Narucki soprano
Jan Erik van Regteren Altena viola
Taco Kooistra cello
Sepp Grotenhuis piano
Michael Grandage reciter
Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra
Roberto Benzi

String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7 (1904-05)
in D minor
String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30 (1927)
Dedicated to Mrs Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 (1907-08)
in F sharp minor
for two violins, viola, cello and a soprano voice (in the third and fourth movements: 'Litanei' and 'Entrückung', poems by Stefan George)
To my wife
String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37 (1936)
To the ideal patron of chamber music
ELIZABETH SPRAGUE COOLIDGE
and to the ideal interpreters of it
THE KOLISCH QUARTET

Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (1899)
Poem by Richard Dehmel (from Weib und Welt) for
six string instruments

Phantasy for Violin with Piano Accompaniment, Op. 47 (1949)
In memory of Adolph Koldofsky

Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41 (1942)
(Lord Byron) for String Quartet, Piano and Reciter

Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (1899)
Poem by Richard Dehmel (from Weib und Welt) for
six string instruments

Phantasy for Violin with Piano Accompaniment, Op. 47 (1949)
In memory of Adolph Koldofsky

Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41 (1942)
(Lord Byron) for String Quartet, Piano and Reciter

Schoenberg Quartet
Janneke van der Meer violin
Wim de Jong violin
Henk Guittart viola
Viola de Hoog cello
with
Susan Narucki soprano
Jan Erik van Regteren Altena viola
Taco Kooistra cello
Sepp Grotenhuis piano
Michael Grandage reciter
Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra
Roberto Benzi

String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7 (1904-05)
in D minor
String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30 (1927)
Dedicated to Mrs Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge

String Quartet in D major (1897)

Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1906)
arranged by Anton Webern for piano and string quartet (1922-3)

Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (1933)
in B flat major
after the Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 7 by George Frideric Handel,
freely transcribed by Arnold Schoenberg

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 (1907-08)
in F sharp minor
for two violins, viola, cello and a soprano voice (in the third and fourth movements: 'Litanei' and 'Entrückung', poems by Stefan George)
To my wife
String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37 (1936)
To the ideal patron of chamber music
ELIZABETH SPRAGUE COOLIDGE
and to the ideal interpreters of it
THE KOLISCH QUARTET

String Trio, Op. 45 (1946)
Commissioned by the Department of Music, Harvard University

premiere recording in this version
Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19 (1911)
arranged by Henk Guittart for string quartet (1999)

premiere recording in this version
Quintet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Op. 26 (1923-4)
arranged by Henk Guittart for string quintet (1995)
To Bubi Arnold